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Posted @ [24 Jun 2005, 02:51:03 PM]
ok, forgive the extremely lame entry title, but i couldn't think of a better entry name, perhaps someone should generate a random list of possible entry names to spare some of us the brain cells that die whilst thinking up an entry name.
anyways, it has been a while since my last real blog post on this blog ... and the countless between my previous post and this post has been spent studying burning brain cells and killing my eyesight by staring at notes, books, my miserably tiny scrawny writing that resemble the workings of a very artistically gifted chicken ... then again this blog posting is not about what i have been doing during my holidays =) [ok everyone, huge sigh of relief]
I'm sure most of us would have heard of 'Murphy's Law' which states that "If anything can go wrong, it will." and most of us have probably seen it occur or have had it occur to us ... but how many of us know how this popular adage originated? ... not many i guess =/
then again, this blog entry is not really about murphy's law, but about other modern adages. like the Dilbert principle [remember the dilbert comics which used appear in the newspapers?] : "In a company, the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management." perhaps this is why we got some principals and some HODs who are the way they are; for example, my secondary school principal (2003) who somehow managed to screw up 5 years of the previous principal's hard work and the school discipline standards ...
another interesting adage would be the "Law of conservation of misery", physics students remember the law of conservation of evergy right? this one is very similar ... and perhaps just as true ... the law states that "Misery is never created or destroyed, just transformed." and how apt it may be ... i mean, during term time, the misery of standing in the parade square under the hot sun listening to people talk .. and the misery of suffering the extremely cold air conditioning of the lecture theatres changes to the misery of a hot and stuffy classroom (during some tutorials) which changes to the misery of having to MUG for block tests during the holidays ... u get the drift don't you?
another favourite adage of mine (probably cos i'm a physics student) is the laws of infernal dynamics
- An object in motion will be moving in the wrong direction.
- An object at rest will be in the wrong place.
- The energy required to move an object in the correct direction, or put it in the right place, will be more than you wish to expend but not so much as to make the task impossible.
interesting how these modern adages are strangely true eh? try relating them to certain interesting events of people ...
one other favourite [which some of you may have seen on my MSN nick name before ...] is Hanlon's razor, which states to "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. " ... i mean, sometimes when someone does(or doesn't do) something to you(or me) we think its out of malice but really ... is that person capable of thinking it up and doing it out of malice? .. it can probably be adequately explained by stupidity =)
other interesting adages include "Sturgeon's Law : Ninety percent of everything is crud." how true eh? and "Okrent's law : The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true." sounds a little like starwars huh? *note 'because sometimes something is true'
anyways i guess thats the end of this entry (cos i can't think of naything else to add on ...); if you have any comments, feel free to comment, and if u have any experiences where any of these adages have come true , feel free to post the experience or add any other interesting adages or sayings or proverps
cheers =)
*edit - is this GP-ish enough? =X
- taken from YJC's MOBLOG [obviously i wrote it .. so yeah .. heh ... i've the right to copy and repost it here =P]
posted by de-novo at 6/26/2005 11:25:00 PM
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